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REMINDER: The deadline for the 2019 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize competition is soon approaching. Translations should be submitted by the deadline of August 1, 2019. The 2018 prizes were awarded to Dawn Lawson for Nakajima Shōen’s A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (Sankan no meika, 1889) and to Max Zimmerman for the short story, “An Artificial Heart” (Jinkō Shinzō, 1936) by Kosakai Fuboku. For further information please see the Cornell Asian Studies Department website.

Articles by Yuki Tanaka

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Yuki Tanaka is Research Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute, and a coordinator of The Asia-Pacific Journal. He is the author most recently of Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn Young, eds., Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History and of Yuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack and Gerry Simpson, eds., Beyond Victor’s Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited. His earlier works include Japan's Comfort Women and Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II.

An Open Letter to Emperor Akihito: For establishing a genuine democracy in Japan

Reflections on the Commemoration of the Kamikaze Pilots in Pearl Harbor and Chiran

Photographer Fukushima Kikujiro - Confronting Images of Atomic Bomb Survivors−−

Peter J. Kuznick and Yuki Tanaka

Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power”•Japanese translation available

The Atomic Bomb and “Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy”

Japanese Atrocities on Nauru during the Pacific War: The murder of Australians, the massacre of lepers and the ethnocide of Nauruans−−

War and Peace in the Art of Tezuka Osamu: The humanism of his epic manga−−

Howard Zinn and Yuki Tanaka

Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence——

Tsukishita Miki and Yuki Tanaka

A Letter to the Citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki From a Hibakusha residing in Okinawa

Robert Wampler and Yuki Tanaka

Nuclear Noh Drama: Tokyo, Washington and the Missing Nuclear Agreements

Richard Falk and Yuki Tanaka

The Atomic Bombing, The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the Shimoda Case: Lessons for Anti-Nuclear Legal Movements

The Songs of Nippon, the Yamato Museum and the Inculcation of Japanese Nationalism

Oda Makoto, Beheiren and 14 August 1945: Humanitarian Wrath against Indiscriminate Bombing

Crime and Responsibility: War, the state, and Japanese society

Last Words of the Tiger of Malaya, General Yamashita Tomoyuki

The Hibakusha Voice and the Future of the Anti-Nuclear Movement

Japan's Kamikaze Pilots and Contemporary Suicide Bombers: War and Terror

Godzilla and the Bravo Shot: Who Created and Killed the Monster?

Firebombing and Atom Bombing: an historical perspective on indiscriminate bombing

Indiscriminate Bombing and the Enola Gay Legacy

A Lesson from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

A Diplomat's Farewell: An Exchange on US-Japan Relations

Reflections 68 Years On: How to Address an Irresponsible State 8

Notes on Nuclear Weapons: Toward Abolition or Armageddon?

Notes on Nuclear Weapons: Toward Abolition or Armageddon?